My wife, as regular readers of this blog know either first-hand or have intimated from previous posts, is named Eileen. Eileen and I met in medical school at the University of Chicago and completed our first two years of medical education together. After second year, Eileen went on to the clinic and finished up in 2006, when she became a doctor (or Suga Mama, M.D., to me. See picture above). She is currently in her second year as a Pediatrics resident at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, where she does an outstanding job taking care of sick kids, and comes home every night with a request to adopt a new baby. Having a child will happen someday, probably sooner than I think, but I would like to finish most of my medical education and have at least one degree before I am responsible for someone else.
Eileen is Korean. There's really no point to me telling you this, except that I think it's cool that we are both children of immigrants. I never thought that when I grew up I would create a Swiss/Korean alliance, but I think it's awesome. My mom thinks it's awesome, too, because she thinks half-white, half-Asian babies are super cute (she has placed a request for a granddaughter from us). And most people thinks it's awesome because they think Eileen is awesome. To the right is a picture of us from our wedding.
Here are some of the things that make Eileen awesome to me:
1) She is a total babe. If she were a president, she'd be Baberaham Lincoln.
2) She's really smart. She's a doctor!
3) She likes a lot of the same things that I do: traveling, eating, cooking, running and watching movies, to a name a few.
4) She's really clean. She has a tendency to leave York Peppermint Patty wrappers on our couch, but other than that our place is super neat and orderly, and she keeps me in line so that I don't turn the place into a mess (Mom would be proud).
Oh, this is supposed to be a Crohn's related post? Almost forgot it's not just me telling the world why I love my wife. So yeah, it's totally sweet that I was lucky enough to marry someone with these qualities, but the list as a whole is admittedly a little superficial.
Do I love my wife for other, deeper reasons? You betcha.
1) Whenever I am sick, she takes care of me. I don't get sick very often, but Eileen is always there to comfort me, to think of ways to make me better and to pick up the slack when I am too tired to do anything.
2) She doesn't make me feel bad about my Crohn's. I know this is kinda like, duh, because what kind of a spouse makes their significant other feel bad about having a chronic disease? But I have some unfortunate consequences of my Crohn's, including bad gas from time to time, and Eileen never makes me feel bad about it. My family has experienced this unfortunate side effect when we are home to visit, and their response is "Whoa! Eileen is a saint for putting up with that!" And she is. Amen.
3) She encourages me to be active and live a normal life.
4) She participates in my GIRF things...she was my training partner for the marathon, comes to our Associate's Board party and Dr. Rubin's patient education seminars, and encourages me to support a wonderful organization.
5) Most importantly: No matter what, she always makes me feel loved.
OK, we're heading into personal, cheesy territory, so I'm going to cut this post short. But I'm still going to leave a parting message (either heart-warming or gross, depending on your level of cynicism and tolerance for public displays of affection):
Eileen, marrying you was the best thing that ever happened to me. You are the love of my life and the reason I can approach each day with optimism and contentment. Thank you for always standing by my side. I love you.
Holla!
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